Learn about international opportunities for undergraduates. This information fair will feature representatives and students from study abroad programs, international internships, scholarship programs and summer opportunities. Staff from the Career Center, the Office of Minority Study Affairs, the Hajim School and many others will be on hand for advising. Learn how to fit an international experience into your undergrad experience and how study abroad can enhance graduate school and career opportunities.

Congratulations to senior, Caroline Speth ('14, Japanese). Caroline
will leave for Japan in July to participate in The Japan Exchange and
Teaching Programme (JET) as an Assistant Language Teacher. Caroline
studied abroad in Nagoya, Japan, for her junior year through IES Abroad.

Study abroad returnees assisted with Experience 2018, Academic and Student Services Fair on Saturday, April 12th. The Center for Study Abroad Staff would like to thank our returnees for assisting families and students in the Class of 2018 and their commitment to international education. The event was a success and our table was very busy.

Paul Vergara ('13, Globalization of Music &
Dance Culture) is working in South Africa for Grassroots Soccer. Paul
recently joined the Partnerships Team at the headquarters in Cape Town.
Within two weeks of working at his new post in Cape Town, Paul was
surprised to meet UR students studying in South Africa, and one student
participating in the Semester at Sea Program. Thank you to Paul for sending us updates and photos. Paul have traveled throughout most of
South Africa as well as parts of Mozambique and Namibia. Paul studied abroad Spring, 2012, through the Semester at Sea Program. We are happy he was lucky enough to meet Lauren Kee who is currently on the Semester at Sea Program.

The Gilman application deadline for Fall ’14 and Full Year study abroad is March 4, 2014. Students who are both a United States citizen and a Pell Grant recipient are eligible to apply for a Gilman Scholarship, a study-abroad specific scholarship that can award up to $8,000.

Learn about getting undergraduate credit for participating in archaeological fieldwork in Bermuda or Italy at an information session on the University's summer programs in archaeology. The session runs from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13, in the Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library. Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by the Program in Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures; the Department of History; and the Department of Religion and Classics. For further information, contact Elizabeth Colantoni for the program in Italy or Michael Jarvis for the program in Bermuda.

Italy in the Fall! Come share your dreams of studying/visiting Italia with Arezzo Italian Studies in Tuscany program director, Donna Logan. Office hours are every Monday in Lattimore 401 from 2:00-3:15pm or Tuesdays from 1:30-3:30pm in Dewey 2-134, until March 3. For more information, contact Donna at dlogan@tin.it.

Rochester students interested in study abroad experiences now have an expanded and improved selection of opportunities in exchange programs. Exchange programs offer students the option of directly enrolling for a semester’s or year’s study at select partner institutions. Direct enrollment provides undergrads the opportunity to explore and study overseas in a more independent, self-directed way by integrating fully into the campus community as a full-time student.

The application deadline for the 2014-2015 David L. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships is January 24, 2014. Applications are now available at www.borenawards.org. Boren Awards, an initiative of the National Security Education Program, provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to study in Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East, where they can add important international and language components to their educations.

In my case, my
study abroad experiences were probably the most important thing I did in
college. I became reasonably fluent in French, met fantastic people in
France and Senegal, and got to travel a lot. It also
looked great on grad school applications. I went to Switzerland, and
I'd strongly encourage other students to look at graduate school
opportunities in Europe. In Switzerland, my tuition for my MA was 3000
USD per year, and I could work half-time as a student
and live relatively comfortably on the salary. My situation was the
norm there.

U of R and the Navy worked together to get me to Madrid within the
bounds of my NROTC scholarship. I showed up with a seabag and a bicycle,
and I spent weekends pedaling to Toledo and other nearby towns. I had
never been abroad before,
and I quickly learned how to navigate (both physically and
figuratively) my way around Spain.

The Center for Study Abroad is pleased to announce a new scholarship available specifically to students participating in exchange programs. See the link below for more information on this scholarship and the exchange programs for which it applies.